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Word: boils (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Yale they boil their enemies in brawn. Only two of the team that started against Army are stunted under six feet. Yale's pachyderms on the line average 192, behind the line 180. This gargantuan group galloped gravely through Army 10-6, despite the sinewy protests of the most seasoned backfield outside of professional football, Captain Harry Wilson (Penn State) Cagle (Louisiana), Murrell (Minnesota). Just in time did Charles D. Curran, an editor of The Pointer, West Point journal, apologize through the Yale Daily News for an inadvertent, faintly insulting bit of optimism in The Pointer. "Yale will furnish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football Matches: Oct. 31, 1927 | 10/31/1927 | See Source »

...suddenness. Captain Aubert remembered his soundings of a moment before and knew the France could not possibly have touched bottom. This flash of certainty was verified as the ship's sudden list reversed itself, became a sharp roll. Looking overside, Captain Aubert beheld the sea in a cold boil, an unaccountable churning that rolled the France steeply twelve times. Then all was calm. The France steamed on in peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Pelagic Puzzle | 9/5/1927 | See Source »

...note with interest your article concerning Dr. Cunningham's oxygen treatment and the opinion of Director Cramp of the American Medical Association [TIME, July 4]. Having been a patient of Dr. Cunning ham's two years ago it fairly makes me boil to read the statement of Dr. Cramp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Suggest & Recommend | 7/25/1927 | See Source »

...Boil Down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 4, 1927 | 7/4/1927 | See Source »

...favorably impressed with your literary style of condensing. My criticism is intended to be friendly and constructive when I say . . . you do not boil down enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 4, 1927 | 7/4/1927 | See Source »

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